By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. — Steve Jurvetson Day Copy Share Image
Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. — Steve Jurvetson Immortality Copy Share Image
There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. — Steve Jurvetson Chance Copy Share Image
If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Art Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. — Steve Jurvetson Commute Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. — Steve Jurvetson Control Copy Share Image
The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and… — Steve Jurvetson Control Copy Share Image
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean,… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal,… — Steve Jurvetson Business Copy Share Image
The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or… — Steve Jurvetson Art Copy Share Image
There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. — Steve Jurvetson Audience Copy Share Image
There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Control Copy Share Image
Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. — Steve Jurvetson Exploration Copy Share Image
We definitely stand behind Theranos in the sense of, we are an investor, and we want them to succeed. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances… — Steve Jurvetson Agriculture Copy Share Image
One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
